For years now I have used both SpywareBlaster and SpyBot to immunise my web browsers against
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January 19th, 2010 |
 Computers, Software, web browsers |  Computers, Internet, Rants, Software |  Leave a comment When Internet Explorer 8 came out Microsoft said they had seriously improved security and that it was now one of the safest web browsers to use. Apparently they were wrong. According to the Guardian newspaper here in the UK an exploit in Internet Explorer was used in the recent attack on Google’s systems in China. source So [...] Some of the software Ninite offers Have you just installed/reinstalled Xp, Vista or Windows 7? Need to install programs but don’t want to sit there manually installing them? Then try Ninite Easy PC Setup. Ninite makes installing multiple applications simple. You just go to their site, select the applications you want to install and then [...] There’s a new boy on the multi messenger scene and his name is Digsby (OK maybe her name). Digsby is not just a cool multi messenger program but it is also a brilliant email checker for both web based email accounts and the traditional POP/IMAP accounts. And on top of that Digsby also lets you keep [...] August 5th, 2009 |
Digsby, email, Gmail, messaging, social networking, Software | Computers, Software | One comment I recently posted how Windows 7 in Europe was going to come without a browser. Apparently now it is looking like instead of having no browsers you will be asked to select a browser when you install Windows 7 and it will then install your chosen web browser. No word yet on which browsers will [...] Apparently when Windows 7 is released the European version will not have Internet Explorer included. The Windows 7 E moniker is just to indicate it is the European version and might be dropped before official release. This is apparently in response to the antitrust suit Opera filed against Microsoft for bundling IE as part of [...] Well Apple has gone and released the memory hog that is Safari 4. It does look good but given that it uses a ridiculous amount of memory I think I will pass. It has some nice features that only work on a mac. Go figure. Also Mozilla has released a new version of Firefox 3.5. It [...] June 9th, 2009 |
Chrome, Firefox, Flock, Safari, web browsers, Web Development | Computers, Internet, Software, Web Development | 4 comments I recently decided to try / review a new anti virus program I had heard about called Rising Antivirus. Now my first issue with this anti virus is the fact that the installer is over 60MB and the download was slow as hell. Took me around 30 minutes to download and I’m on a [...] Mozilla has released a new add on for their Firefox web browser that lets you skin it. By skin it I mean an image wil appear behind the toolbars and behind the status bars with the text colour of the bars changed to match. You can read more about it, view the available skins and [...] OK having recently installed Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) and had problems with it I was determined to find what was causing the problems and how to fix it. Before trying any of the below first try resetting IE8 to it’s defaults. Open your Control Panel (you will find it in your start menu) and then open [...] |
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